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Present in the room were new Meta vice chair Dina Powell McCormick, Michael Dell and many of the biggest banks’ CEOs, except for Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I don’t think anything positive happened that day except for the realization that . . . 150 people were all on the same page as to their experience with the Teamsters,” one attendee said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some nights, with no electricity and little gasoline to get around, the streets of Havana are dark and quiet, except for the occasional din of wooden spoons clanging against pots—an anonymous form of protest that comes from open windows, balconies and rooftops late at night, when the power has been out all day and desperation mounts.

From The Wall Street Journal

Everything they had except for the shotgun and the parkas on their backs had just sunk to the bottom of the lake.

From Literature

All except for her right front paw, which was red.

From Literature